Word: fowlerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed amazing, as one peruses the Harvard catalogue, to discover that the University still offers no courses in the interesting and important field of phrenology. Phrenology is, in the words of the Fowler brothers, "a noble discipline, practical and spiritual, useful for head and hand, foot and mouth, hide and hair...
...Roach Jr., 39, is president (his father, 66, is a director) of Hal Roach Studios, which now produces TV films. ¶ Gene Fowler Jr., 40, a film editor for nearly 20 years, last year directed I Was a Teenage Werewolf, is now producing and directing Paramount's I Married a Monster from Outer Space. Father Gene Fowler, 68, oldtime cirrhosis-be-damned newsman and biographer of the John Barrymore era, wrote Barrymore's biography (Good Night, Sweet Prince...
...Contamination of food crops from strontium-90 fallout can be reduced by simply adding lime to the soil, said the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Dr. Eric B. Fowler. His team found, in "Project Green Thumb," that plants growing in calcium-poor soils are avid for strontium: give them enough crushed limestone (which is 40% calcium), and they lose much of their appetite...
...With his gangly legs and his crew cut and his wide campus gaze he seemed incapable of harm." But he is an idealist. "He was determined to do good, to people, to countries, to the whole world." His naivete horrifies Greene's Englishman, a middle-aged newsman named Fowler (Michael Redgrave), whose pipedreams are provided by opium, and whose pipe is prepared by his pretty little Vietnamese mistress, Phuong. (Phuong is in the picture, but the opium is not.) Aside from Phuong (Giorgia Moll), the Englishman's principal passion is his uninvolvement, but the American wants...
...with Phuong. The American is terribly fair about the girl. He tells the Englishman, even before he tells Phuong, that he has fallen in love with her. He intends, he says, to marry her and take her back to "the folks in Texas," and he belligerently allows to Fowler (whose wife, back in England, will not give him a divorce) that "a woman's entitled to the security of marriage"-adding thoughtfully that of course "we both have her interests at heart." Fowler snaps back incredulously: "I don't care about her interests. I want her!" And still...